Climate change ‘to affect coral fish’ (AAP via Yahoo!7 News) Scientists say coral fish could suffer from climate change just as much as the reefs they live in. [News Source]

A powerful revival. The first new hydroelectric power plant in the East in 20 years would double a Susquehanna dam's electrical output, providing another 100,000 homes in the region with pollution-free electricity. [News Source]

Hearings to debate impact of solar farms on threatened species. State and federal agencies have their hands full with an onslaught of applications from companies eyeing the Southern California desert for its solar power potential. [News Source]

Ecotowns: for and against. Ten new clean, green ‘eco-towns’ will be built by 2020. And pigs might fly, say critics. They argue that the government is bulldozing through a programme that will create the slum estates of the future. [News Source]

More parched communities ponder desalination solution. Massive pumps suck 25 million gallons of sea water from Tampa Bay every day, squeezing out the salt as the water travels through microscopic holes in 10,000 filters. [News Source]

An amphibious assault. Around the world, frogs and toads are falling victim to a loss of habitat, pesticides, pollution and an insidious, quick-acting fungus. And now they are going extinct faster than any other animals since the dinosaurs. [News Source]

Disaster-prone deltas next climate risk-ecologist. Some of the world's most productive and populous places -- river deltas from the Mekong to the Mississippi -- are ripe for disasters made worse by climate change, an ecological catastrophe expert said. [News Source]

Environmental group ties floods to global warming. The disastrous floods that ravaged southern Wisconsin this week are consistent with global warming predictions by Clean Wisconsin in a January 2007 report. [News Source]

City Hall passes plan to ‘green’ fleet of vehicles. Set against the backdrop of the soaring cost of gasoline and rising oil prices, city council approved last week its first-ever plan to green its corporate fleet of vehicles. [News Source]

Cargo ships told to go green by slowing down. Lumbering across the world's oceans at a leisurely pace, they seem relatively blameless compared with planes or lorries. But the role of cargo ships in exacerbating climate change is about to come under scrutiny. The solution? Slow down. [News Source]

Duke to perform test on air-emission controls at Cliffside. Duke Energy Corp. says it will voluntarily assess the air-emission controls and the reductions they make in hazardous emissions at the coal unit under construction at the company's Cliffside Steam Station. [News Source]